'Godzilla dust cloud' drifts over U.S. Southeast, raising health concerns

The 3,500-mile-long (5,600 km) cloud, dubbed the "Godzilla dust cloud," traveled 5,000 miles (8,047 km) from North Africa before reaching the region stretching from Florida west into Texas and north into North Carolina through Arkansas, the National Weather Service (NWS) said."Some of these plumes contain more particles, and right now we expecting a very large plume of dust in the Gulf Coast."